Detections
Analytics

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libarchive (SUSE-SU-2022:1803-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161469

Language:

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1803-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2022-26280: Fixed out-of-bounds read via the component zipx_lzma_alone_init (bsc#1197634).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected bsdtar, libarchive-devel, libarchive13 and / or libarchive13-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1197634

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26280

http://www.nessus.org/u?15cc26a6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161469

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1803-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-26280

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libarchive13

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-26280

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1803-1